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(WFAA-TV News) ROCKWALL — Following his first day of kindergarten, five-year-old Derrick Hood was supposed to board an after-school daycare bus outside Shannon Elementary in Rockwall Monday afternoon. He never got on that bus. The incident was reported right away by the daycare bus driver, but Derrick remained missing more than three hours later. MORE
ROCKWALL – Rockwall ISD has named two new principals for the 2011-12 school year at Sharon Shannon Elementary School and Amanda Rochell Elementary School. At Shannon, Carla Bennett replaces Katrina Hasley, who has been named the district’s new Director of Accountability, Assessment and Professional Development. Sherry Packer replaces previous Rochelle principal Terry Peters, who has [...]
ROCKWALL — Anticipating a $15.7 million state funding cut over the next two years, the Rockwall ISD Board of Trustees passed a $101,171,531 general fund budget Thursday night, 5-0, at its board meeting and public hearing. Two board members were unable to attend. There were no comments from the public at the sparsely-attended, 30-minute meeting [...]
ROCKWALL – A benefit picnic dinner will be held June 10 for 10-year-old Hannah Rathje, a Celia Hays Elementary School student who was just diagnosed with a rare form of muscular cancer called Synovia Sarcoma. She is pictured above with her 4th grade teachers Schauna Callaway, Debbie Barineau and Jane Braddock. The dinner will be [...]
ROCKWALL – Presidential Academic Award Winners, who earned an “A” average in all subjects throughout their elementary school years at Dorris A. Jones Elementary School and a commended performance on state assessments are (from left): Jacob Allen, Jeremi Ntibagaye, Xaviera Hernandex and Kaitlyn Strother, pictured with principal Angela Marcellus. Click photo to enlarge.
ROCKWALL – In keeping with the spirit of giving back to the community, the students and Math Department at Williams Middle School recently raised $5,342.17 for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis TN. The mission of the 78-bed hospital, founded by the late entertainer Danny Thomas in 1962, is to find cures for children [...]
AUSTIN – Texas House-Senate lawmaker budget negotiators voted 9-1 yesterday for a two-year state budget that would cut Rockwall and Royse City ISD state funding, as well as overall Texas school funding, by 8 percent. Cuts are less than were feared as a result of last minute accounting maneuvers. Rockwall ISD administrators had feared cuts [...]
ROCKWALL – The Rockwall ISD Board of Trustees voted unanimously, 7-0, to approve the outsourcing of transportation and custodial services last night at their monthly meeting at the RISD Administration building, in hopes of saving millions of dollars over the next five years. Affected by the decisions are the jobs of about 125 transportation and [...]
ROCKWALL – The outsourcing of Rockwall ISD’s transportation and custodial services in order to save millions of dollars will be determined by the RISD Board of Trustees at their regular monthly meeting tonight at 5 pm at the school district’s Administration Building, 1050 Williams St. The public is invited to attend and make comments. At [...]
ROCKWALL – School buses may not pick up children anymore who live within two miles of school buildings if the Rockwall ISD school board approves the outsourcing of transportation services to Durham School Services at their public meeting May 23. That’s just one of many allegations made by several RISD Transportation Department employees to TheRockwallNews.com [...]
